Snakes - USA

As with the previous photo, this adult Southern Black Racer (Coluber constrictor constrictor), from the Heron Pond area in southern Illinois, was a giant! There may not be Indigo snakes (Drymarchon) in Illinois, but who needs them when the racers are this big!
This old snake showed many tail-telling battle scars that are so often associated with a long and clearly successful life.